13A + 13D: You should write the notes in class and then write it up in 45 minutes at home this weekend for submission on Tuesday. (13B will have done this in lesson time).
The Question
Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs meaning through the following:
It contains all the key words you need to use to describe types of sound in your textual analysis essay, it also gives some examples from film.
Lesson 2
Task
You should then analyse the sounds in this TV drama sequence and answer the essay beneath.
Analyse the sound in this sequence from Merlin directed by James Hawes. Analyse how the sound helps develop and represent a sense of place, character and story. You should analyse the following features of the sound:
Diegetic Sound
Ambient Sound
Environmental Sounds Events (Foley)
Dialogue
Non-Diegetic Sounds
Music
Sound Effects / Sound Stabs
A worksheet with all the terminology included: Sound Notes
Key to success: what is represented, connoted, inferred, implied, shown, meant, suggested, outlined, highlighted etc. So how is meaning created in the clip by the use of the Microfeatures and that includes how are the characters represented that contribute to that meaning.
The four areas which you need to understand to complete a textual analysis of a sequence from TV or Film are:
Collectively called ‘micro features’ and are
Camera
Mise-en-Scene
Editing
Sound
You are also going to making a music video soon and editing is an important skill to learn to communicate meaning and help represent narrative and characters.
Analyse the following TV Drama clip in class and discussing how the mise-en-scene & camera communicates meaning. First of all after watching it, summarise what the clip is mainly focused on in terms of what themes, issues, social groups are represented.
In pairs, you should aim to find 3 moments when camera is used to represent a theme, issue, social group and 3 moments when MES is used to represent a theme, issue, social group.
Remember: T (terms), E (examples – descriptions), A (analysis – meaning communicated) and S (significance to the representation of the men and women in the sequence).
Please answer the following question in 6 sentences of beautiful analysis. Each sentence should contain the following:
A well described example from the text, which uses media terminology to identify it.
An analytical connective (see examples below).
Interesting and varied adjectives which describe the ideas (connotations) being communicated to the audience.
Analyse the ways in which mise-en-scene communicates the different life styles of the people living and working in Downton Abbey. (500 words max)
Here is the clip you should analyse:
Help!
You should use this document to help you make notes and structure your analysis.
Below is the presentation on we gave you on mise-en-scene. You should use this to remind you of the areas you should cover in mise-en-scene. It may also point you to ideas think about within in the sequence.
